Issue setting an heic

[therealX01D]

Dear sir, Hope you're doing well I installed package from aur and when i run the set command it returns this

Error: could not set wallpaper: No such file or directory (os error 2)

my os is Archlinux any help is greatly appreciated edit: the image file exists

best regards

[therealX01D]

the info command result

Size: 80980812B
Resolution: 5120x2880px
Schedule type: time
Number of images: 19
Number of frames: 19
Schedule:
Frame Image Time
1     1     00:00:00
2     2     04:00:00
3     3     05:00:00
4     4     06:00:00
5     5     06:30:00
6     6     07:00:00
7     7     07:30:00
8     8     08:00:00
9     9     09:00:00
10    10    11:00:00
11    0     12:00:00
12    11    13:00:00
13    12    14:00:00
14    13    17:00:00
15    14    19:00:00
16    15    20:00:00
17    16    21:00:00
18    17    22:00:00
19    18    23:00:00
Appearance:
Light: 0
Dark: 16

[bcyran]

Hi! What DE/WM are you using? I suspect it's not of the supported ones - see wallpaper-rs lib docs. You can still use timewall but you will need to configure it to use your custom command to set the wallpaper. See Custom wallpaper setting command.

The error message is impressively unhelpful, I should fix that.

[therealX01D]

Thank you for replying, I'm using hyprland with hyprpaper desktop manager have you tried using it with the plugin before??

[bcyran]

I find hyprpaper extremely inconvenient to use because of the fact that wallpaper setting is a multi step process involving loading and unloading of images. I don't use it precisely for this reason. It's absolutely possible to create some kind of script to make it easier. In fact that's precisely what hyprpaper readme suggests:

In any and all cases when you don't mind waiting 300ms for the wallpaper to change, consider making a script that:

• preloads the new wallpaper
• sets the new wallpaper
• unloads the old wallpaper (to free memory)

However, I would suggest using swww instead. You just have to ensure that swww-daemon is running and then the following config:

[setter]
command = ['swww', 'img', '%f']

added to ~/.config/timewall/config.toml works great.

[bcyran]

I published a new release which should make the error message a bit more informative and which includes a command example in the generated config file :smiley:.

[therealX01D]

Ok thank you sir, used swww as suggested and all is working perfectly + the new error messages is a great addition